(September 5, 2022 at 1:20 pm)FormerCatholic Wrote:The Church wouldn't baptize my oldest. But baptized the child of a friend after her dad made a rather large contribution.(September 5, 2022 at 12:41 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: I did a little Googling around. Apparently, the Church has made it more difficult to officially leave its rolls. Imagine that. They don't want to lower their numbers.
It really is amazing. You're right, they don't want to lower their numbers.
Yet one of the posters shared a story of a Catholic family having to give a church back-pay (the family had stopped giving weekly donations) in order to get a funeral for a relative.
The church won't let you officially leave. Yet they have no qualms about swindling you if you've been a "bad Catholic"
A friend's dad was a Presby minister. He christened her. I didn't bother with the other two. By the time I had them I was over it
The concept of paying....actually paying with cash money...did it for me though I had doubts long before that.
I'm your huckleberry.
